architecture

Iron Origami

Sitting aloft the Tel Aviv skyline is this penthouse a family have decided to make their home. Pitsou Kedem studio’s work is a Design Addicts Platform favourite. We love them here! This 175 square metre penthouse has a folded piece of iron that encloses many of the mundane services that overflow into living spaces. Concealing televisions and toilets among...

Lush Life

Tucked away in a golf resort one hundred kilometres from Sao Paolo, this family home, designed by Studio Arthur Casas, has been created to not only house the owners and their children but also to instil a great sense of relationship between the interiors and world beyond. The architect has arranged the house on a linear plane ensuring the...

Chatting with Karim Rashid

Yesterday I got to sit down with one the most prolific designers of our generation, Karim Rashid for an insightful conversation on life, inspiration and design. This stunning human was Everything! Taking time out from his busy schedule at Design + Decor in Melbourne I was very honored to interview him. Q - You have been described as one...

Prewar in Warsaw

When the owner of this Prewar apartment in Warsaw relocated from Paris he hired Marta Chrapka of Colombe Design to bring him a piece of Paris to Poland. Prior to Chrapka’s intervention, the apartment was dark and cluttered by irrational space planning and complicated built in wardrobes and furniture. Stripping the one bedroom modest apartment has allowed light to penetrate deeply and allowed the addition of...

celebrated history

Combining the history of the existing 1930s former shoe factory in London with that of the clients was the task given to APA. Drawn to the expansive window and space, the clients wanted something that celebrated the history of the building and also the unique design elements and textures. To achieve this, APA developed a program which opened up...

Dolphin Island

When Dutch-born investor Alex van Heeran decided to open his family holiday ‘home’ aka island in Fiji to the wider world, interior designer Virginia Fisher was awarded the commission. Dolphin Island marks the third of the luxury Huka Retreat properties by van Heeran and his third design collaboration with Fisher. Located on the northern tip of Fiji's Viti Levu, 14-acre Dolphin...

pavilion living

SPASM was commissioned to demolish an existing structure, which was deemed structurally unfit for occupation, and build a new home on the same site. Many radical strategies were adopted retaining and recycling the debris of the demolished building as a mound. Located in Malvali India, the sleeping spaces form an introverted assembly around existing trees on the ground level, where one descends into the coolness and...

unapologetic Mornington Peninsula

Designed to be tough, a bold re-imagining honouring the history and integrity of the original home yet placing it firmly within contemporary 21st century design. Designed by SJB, a large glass pavilion houses the stunning new master-suite and multiple floor levels address the natural fall of the landscape. Tough materials like cedar, steel, glass, natural stone and...

Jungle house

This heavenly home named the Jungle House is located on the Paulista shore in the region of the Rain Forest Guarujá Brazil, set against the mountainous topography. The introduction of this house to this landscape designed by legendary Studiomk27 optimises the connection between architecture and nature, looking out to the ocean and the incidence of sunlight in the...

Black Beauty

I have followed and loved the projects of the Brazilian firm Jacobsen Arquitetura for some time now and this project, located in Paraty,  is no different – LOVE. Firstly, I mad for black timber cladding and I think the Brazilian design ideologies – open, airy, light – translate well to the Australian vernacular. Jacobsen Arquitetura were given the brief...